Fact: A huge amount of the people who pay money to this game are the ones guilty of botting.

If evony banned everyone who used a bot and everyone who account shared there would be no one left paying money and the servers would soon die out. And all the mergers in the world wouldn't fix that if there are no players to merge.

Im not saying people dont get banned for botting, but i dont think a single person has been banned since the last merge of the server im on.

How would someone react who had spent $5000 (or more) playing this game only to be banned? they wont carry on spending, they will just find another way (or game) to fill their habits and forget all about this one.